From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 17:50:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ciao.cc.columbia.edu (ciao.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.59.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384C41518B for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 17:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (dialup-10-11.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.36.231]) by ciao.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA18740; Tue, 11 May 1999 20:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3738CFC7.DE79EA03@confusion.net> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 20:48:07 -0400 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Donald Wilde , Todd Backman , "James A. Mutter" , phrotos@email.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to change the shell? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But it probably wouldnt be a bad thing if I were to copy TCSH into /bin and then not worry about Single user mode problems? Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > > > I've heard that many times, is there any reason not to just put tcsh, > > bash, etc on the root partition? > > because they both stink, use zsh! > > i think licenses, and the fact that no one wants to argue what will > become the defacto shell form freebsd is what keeps it as sh/csh. > > sh/csh is also mandated by tradition afaik and there is no need for > bash/tcsh/zsh in the base install, they are seperately developed > projects. > > this is why we have the ports collection.. > > -Alfred -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message